George W. Truett on First Amendment and Free Speech

Baptists pleaded, and suffered, and kept on with their protests and remonstrances and memorial, until, thank God, forever, their contention was won in these United States and written into our country’s Constitution that church and state must, in this land, be forever separate and free, and that neither must ever trespass upon the distinctive functions of the other.

–George W. Truett, “Address to the Baptist World Alliance 1939” as quoted in Leonard, Bill J. “Southern Baptists and the Separation of Church and State.” Review and Expositor (1986)